TIP225: Billionaire Peter Thiel Lessons Learned (Business Podcast)
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Stig Brodersen
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why and how Peter Thiel is always inverting his thinking and why you should do the same
- Why visionaries think in terms of a tipping point of employees rather than a tipping point for revenue
- What Peter Thiel knows that no one agrees with him on.
- Why computers replacing people is an angst narrative that is not true
- Ask The Investors: How much should value investors pay attention to the bond yield curve?
Important Links:
- Preston and Stig’s discussion of Peter Theil’s book, Zero to One
- Preston and Stig’s executive summary of Peter Theil’s book, Zero to One
- Reid Hoffman’s book, Blitzscaling – Read reviews of this book
- Ryan Holiday’s book, Conspiracy - Read reviews of this book
- Download your free audio book at Audible.
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- Create original investment research with INVRS.
- Move your business to the cloud with Netsuite.
- Get access to the future of real estate investing with Fundrise.
- Move your business forward with TripActions.
- Explore a mobile plan that can change as your business does with Telstra.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.6 | On today's show, we cover a very famous Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Till. |
| 0:07.1 | For people that aren't familiar with Peter, he's a graduate of Stanford University and |
| 0:11.0 | after he graduated from college, he started off as a judicial clerk working as a securities |
| 0:15.6 | lawyer and he even did some derivatives trading at Credit Swiss before starting his own capital |
| 0:20.4 | management company. |
| 0:22.0 | But then in 1990, co-founded a little company called PayPal and he was the CEO until the |
| 0:27.2 | sale to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. |
| 0:31.9 | After the sale of PayPal, Till started a big data analysis company called Palantir Technologies |
| 0:37.2 | and he also became the founder of a venture capital firm called Founders Fund. |
| 0:42.0 | With this firm, Till became Facebook's first outside investor when he acquired a 10% |
| 0:46.9 | stake for $500,000 in August of 2004. |
| 0:51.0 | Peter's personal net worth today is about $2.5 billion and he remains active in numerous |
| 0:56.5 | tech businesses. |
| 0:58.0 | So on today's show, we cover a few of the more interesting questions that Peter's responded |
| 1:01.9 | to lately and we're really looking forward to digging into some of his responses. |
| 1:05.9 | So without further delay, here's our episode covering Peter Till. |
| 1:12.4 | You are listening to THE Investors Podcast where we study the financial markets and read |
| 1:17.4 | the books that influence self-made billionaires the most. |
| 1:20.6 | We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected. |
| 1:32.1 | All right, welcome to the Investors Podcast. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm your host, Preston Pishin. |
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